Posts Tagged ‘Albert Einstein’

Today marks the 71st anniversary of George Bernard Shaw’s death, at age 94 in 1950. What better way to honor him than posting this short video, filmed at the Savoy Hotel in London, England on 27 October 1930. In less than two minutes, the Irish playwright wittily honors another Nobel winner, physicist Albert Einstein in a short speech. (With a hat tip to Neil Silberblatt.)

Over at Buzzfeed … bookplates of famous people.  Hard to make a choice among the cosmic, the tasteful, the vulgar, the odd, the obvious, the outré – but here goes.

The cosmic… Albert Einstein

The unexpected … Bette Davis

The self-aggrandizing… Greta Garbo

The elegant (with such a name, how could it be otherwise?) … Oliver Wendell Holmes

Because she’s the Queen … Victoria

Because we love lions… Charles Dickens

Check out the bookplates of Benito Mussolini, Woodrow Wilson, H.G. Wells, William Butler Yeats, Maurice Sendak, and many others here.